Coloring book composed of digital images converted to black and white outlines

ABSTRACT

A coloring book is provided, especially for children, having a cover and a content including several pages, on which pictures and text are found. This book is individualized, in that the coloring pages are converted jpeg photographs of grandparents (also can be applied to extended family and friends, pets, or other similar groupings) submitted by customers and converted into black and white coloring page images. The text will be simple phrase describing the activity in the photograph. The primary purpose of this coloring book is to provide a medium through which grandparents may maintain a relationship with grandchildren when visiting is difficult or impossible by rendering a photographic representation of the client(s) in coloring book pages.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The invention concerns a coloring book, designed especially forgrandparents to give to their grandchildren, having a cover and contentsconsisting of a plurality of pages containing coloring pages and textpositioned on the pages, wherein the customer supplies 12 jpeg digitalpictures which will be converted into black and white computer-generatedreplicas; simple text headlines on each page which describe the image,all bound together into one coloring book suitable for coloring by achild.

Long distance grandparenting is becoming more and more prevalent intoday'd mobile society. Grandparents rarely get to visit their littleloves and need a venue for keeping their memories alive in the far-awaychild's mind. The primary purpose of this coloring book is to provide amedium through which grandparents may maintain a relationship withgrandchildren when visiting is difficult or impossible by rendering aphotographic representation of the client(s) in coloring book pages.

By providing a kid-friendly medium of coloring pages of images of thegrandparents, the grandchildren will be more inclined to remember theirloving grandparents when personal visits are made. In addition, seeinggrandparents in their normal settings will help the children see theirgrandparents as real people, not just disembodied voices on thetelephone or words on paper.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Coloring pages containing computer-generated images converted from jpegpictures submitted by customers for individualization in this medium.Simple text describing the image will be added to each page. All pagesand a cover will be bound by spiral binding processes.

Since this concept could easily apply to other relatives, friends, orpets, it is understood that this invention is not limited to theparticular embodiment(s) disclosed, but it is intended to covermodifications within the spirit and scope of the present invention.

1. A coloring book, designed especially for grandparents to give totheir grandchildren, comprising of a cover and contents consisting of aplurality of pages containing coloring pages and text positioned on thepages, wherein the customer supplies 12 jpeg digital pictures which willbe converted into black and white computer-generated replicas; simpletext headlines on each page which describe the image, all bound togetherinto one coloring book suitable for coloring by a child.